Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Six Black men were held in a jail at a courthouse in South Carolina, according to a dispatch from Columbia printed in the Evening Star on January 7, 1871. The dispatch says the jail was broken open around one o'clock on the morning of Thursday, January 5, and the six men were taken out and shot. The men are not named in the report, and it does not say who carried out the shooting.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to the Chronicle says the six men were taken from the courthouse jail and shot.
Reported by: special dispatch to the Chronicle (reporters).